European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday february 2, 1989 world today ., Spain agree to join against drug trafficking London a Britain and Spain agreed in principle tuesday to reciprocate on a Range of Mea sures against drug trafficking including the seizure of illicit drug fortunes the Home office said. We Are determined to work together and with our fellow nations to tackle the evil of drug Traffick ing Home Secretary Douglas kurd said. Hurd was addressing a ceremony attended by Spanish Interior minister Jose Luis Corcuera to Exchange texts of a bilateral agreement offering reciprocal Powers to Trace freeze and impound drug dealers assets. The agreement will be formally signed in a few months a Home office official said. Unicof asks $11.5 million to help hard hit sudanese Geneva a the United nations Chil Dren s fund appealed wednesday for $11.5 Mil lion in emergency Aid for hundreds of thousands of sudanese forced to flee their Homes by drought and civil War. The main aim is to provide food drugs and clean water for displaced people in Southern Sudan and the Khartoum area a Unice statement said. Vaccination drives Are planned after a measles outbreak killed All children under 5 in some villages last summer said Robert Rogier a Unicof representative in Khartoum Sudan s capital. German army exemption for holocaust Kin widened Hamburg West Germany a the exemption from military service for sons of jew ish holocaust victims has been extended to the grandsons of those persecuted the defense min ister said tuesday. The Issue of military service is still very sensitive for holocaust survivors children de sense minister Rupert Scholz told the Hamburg based Panorama television program. The decision to extend the exemption is in keeping with a longstanding desire for reconciliation Scholz said. Until recently Only the sons of holocaust Vic Tims were exempted from West Germany s compulsory military service. Scholz said the decision was made at the re quest of the West German jewish Council. Suffocation of Fox brings conviction for 2 in Birkenhead England a in the first successful prosecution of its kind in Britain two men were sentenced tuesday to a month in jail for suffocating a Fox by trapping it in its Lair. Some spectators applauded after magistrates sentenced Barry Pruden 27, and Stephen Hor ton 27, in Birkenhead near Liverpool in North Central England. Pruden and Horton both of Liverpool were also banned for two years from keeping any animal. The Royal society for the Protection of Ani Mals which filed the complaint against the two men argued that the Fox was made captive when the men blocked two holes to its Lair. The two were found guilty on Jan. 3 of causing unnecessary suffering to a captive Fox. It was the first time anyone was found convicted of such a crime despite years of anti Fox Hunting efforts by animal rights activists. East bloc non aligned join Kabul s diplomacy exodus Kabul up despite soviet pressure. East bloc and non aligned embassy personnel have joined the growing numbers of diplomats leaving this besieged capital along with 31 wounded afghan children who were airlifted wednesday to West Germany. Western diplomats reported the ambassadors of Poland and Mongolia left Kabul tuesday leaving their missions with minimal representation amid fears of a rebel attack expected after soviet forces Are withdrawn by the deadline of feb. 15. The United states West Germany and Italy have already pulled out their embassy staffs and Britain France and Japan Are expected to follow. Western diplomats contend the Moscow backed afghan government will be unable to provide adequate Security once soviet forces Are gone. Afghan officials however have accused Western embassies of waging psychological warfare by or Dering their staffs to leave. But growing departures by East bloc and non aligned representatives indicates Western embassies Are not alone in their concerns. Politically the East bloc missions Are under soviet pressure to stay open but it is All happening one Western Diplomat said. The pressure is now on the airlines and we can expect some ugly scenes at Western and East bloc diplomats reported the East German staff is being reduced to 10 and said the embassy planned to charter an evacuation also said few czech and bulgarian diplomats remained in Kabul and the Hungnan Mission reduced to five staffers would be Cut to two after feb. 11. My opinion is that we Are leaving because you Western diplomats Are leaving said an East bloc Diplomat who predicted the soviet installed govern Iran hangs 16 More jails 4 radio execs Nicosia Cyprus a Iran hanged 16 More people for various crimes and sentenced four Tehran radio executives to jail tuesday for a program that insulted islam official news reports said. Ten women and one Man were hanged tuesday in the Northwestern iranian provinces of Zanjani and Markazi after they confessed to setting up Dens of corruption and adultery the islamic Republic new Agency said without elaborating. The hanging verdicts were issued by the local islamic courts and confirmed by the judicial High Council said Irna monitored in Nicosia. Earlier Irna reported five afghan nationals convicted of robbery and rape were hanged publicly Mon Day in the northeastern City of Mashhad. They were convicted of 13 charges brought against them including armed robberies rape and terrorizing people Irna said without giving details. Tehran radio s broadcast director Mohammad Arab Mazar Yazdi was sentenced by the penal court to five years in jail and three other executives were sentenced to four years plus 50 lashes after a saturday broadcast that offended islam and angered Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Irna said. The episode of the daily program family was de voted to the role of women in islamic society on the occasion of the birthday of Fatima Zahra the daughter and Only child of Prophet Mohammed the founder of islam. The other three executives sentenced were Mahmoud Abu Qasemi director of islamic ideology Hamid Khun men head of supervision and Mohammad Rasekh Edi Tor of ideological programs Irna said. Ment would fall in april. It is just an exodus the Diplomat said. Go knows what is going to Western diplomats also reported that China is Cut Ting its personnel from 18 to six disproving afghan government claims that asians would stay because they understood the situation better than westerners. India one of the few non communist countries openly supporting the Kabul regime is flying out All non essential personnel and reductions were also re ported at non aligned nations embassies. The East bloc Diplomat said the missions of Yugo Slavia Iran and Iraq would keep Skeleton staffs but they Are calling each other and asking each other every Day what the other is there Are also far fewer russian faces in the streets of Kabul following the withdrawal of thousands of soviets once employed in civil service jobs. Western officials said the number of soviet Diplo Matic staff had been halved to about 150 in the soviet embassy compound protected by a recently constructed Wall. The soviet compound is on the opposite Side of town from the Airport and Western diplomats claim workers widening the Road in front of the embassy Are actually constructing a runway for evacuation aircraft in Case the Airport Falls into rebel hands. Among those departing for new Delhi India on wednesday were 24 boys and seven girls being taken to West Germany for treatment of wounds sustained Dur ing the War. The children were being flown out by peace Vil Lage a West German organization that transports children from troubled areas of the world for medical treatment. Water meter parking is so tight in Amsterdam that Drivers sometimes take their frustration out on hapless meters. Two members of the parking police at left get a hand from passers by in rescuing a meter from one of the dutch City s Many canals. Who knows maybe an angry Driver had taken Abath in parking fines. Book says Hess jailed Impersonator murdered London a prosecutors said wednesday they Are examining allegations by a British doctor that Rudolf Hess was murdered in 1941 and that an Impersonator who spent 46 years in his place in West Berlin s Spandau prison also was murdered. Or. Hugh Thomas said he had asked Scotland Yard to investigate detailed evidence contained in his 1988 Book a tale of two murders which rejects the official verdict that Spandau s prisoner no. 7" committed suicide. The Crown prosecution service which handles the prosecution of Crimi Nal proceedings begun by police forces said it is investigating Thomas allegations. Thomas asserts that Hess Adolf hit Ler s Deputy was murdered while flying to Scotland on a peace Mission in 1941, and that an Impersonator in a second plane was substituted by plotters among Hitler s deputies. Thomas said he has seen unpublished reports of two autopsies and unpublished photographs of the body in Spandau showing Marks on the neck inconsistent with a suicide hanging. The autopsies he said also supported his Contention that the prisoner did not Bear scars of a severe Chest wound Hess suffered in world War i. U Hess family be Eves that the prisoner held by Allied nations in Spandau in the British sector of West Berlin was Hess but contends that he did not commit Sui cide but was murdered aug. 17, 1987 atthe age of 93. The Only official testimony of the circumstances surrounding his death was registered in Britain. Thomas charged that the British objected to releasing the prisoner and covered up evidence concerning his death. Thomas alleged that the prisoner was murdered to Stop the leak of details of a world War ii plot by powerful britons to overthrow prime minister Winsto Churchill. Thomas a surgeon who was a British army doctor when he examined the Pris Oner in Spandau in 1973, first made his claim that the prisoner was not Hess in his 1979 Book the murder of
